<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Christian<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I have watched this from afar, but have little first hand experience.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The issues that I have with the Meraki model, as I understand it, is that the node owner purchases the node, supplies the bandwidth and the neighbors get free wifi with ads.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Now, I am actually quite supportive of the first part. When I moved into my current place I purchased equipment to start an SFLAN node, but alas, that project folded before I became active. Wireless mesh networks seem to have the spirit that the early internet had.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Being the lazy person that I am (and not having done the research), does anyone know if I can take Meraki's code and modify it to not run ads, but still be part of the mesh community (freedom). Would people that use the same mesh technologies (MIT?) be able to join the network without banner ads (beer)? I am also ignorantly concerned about the data being collected about the sites that people choose to view on the Meraki network for targeted advertising. (freedom).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I apologize if this seems adversarial (I dont mean to be) and that I didnt do my homework fully.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-jasonstone</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>On Nov 11, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Christian Einfeldt wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 9, 2007 2:41 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen <<a href="mailto:kristian.hermansen@gmail.com">kristian.hermansen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 11/9/07, Sameer Verma <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> Mass production is already happening as we speak/write<br>> (<a href="http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/421" target="_blank"> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/421</a>). We will probably buy a few at SF<br>> State so that we can conduct mesh networking experiments. </blockquote><div><br>Sorry if I already posted this link, but there is already the beginning of a free (as in freedom and free as in beer) mesh network being built in SF: <br><br><a href="http://sf.meraki.com/overview">http://sf.meraki.com/overview</a><br> </div></div>Has anyone used this network yet?<br> _______________________________________________<br>sf-lug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:sf-lug@linuxmafia.com">sf-lug@linuxmafia.com</a><br>http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>